For The Record

November, 1986

I think that although women want pornography very much, the climate for it right now is absolutely repressive. It's ironic, but I think feminists have helped create that climate. Look at Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon. I think they're fools. The legislation they're proposing [that would define pornography as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women, whether in pictures or in words"] is absurd. I regard my writing of pornography to be a real moral cause. And I don't...